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#ThisWeekInData June 3, 2016

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June 3, 2016 Civic Data Each week we will bring you a summary of what happened this week on our site, on Twitter, and in the wider world of civic data. Suggest stories on Twitter with #ThisWeekInData. Sidewalk Labs and Transportation for America announced...

The Bus System of the Future

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February 13, 2019 Mobility This post originally appeared on Stephen Goldsmith's Better Faster Cheaper blog on Governing.com. One of the foundational dilemmas of developing and managing an urban bus network is the tradeoff between service coverage and...

Four Ways to Increase Mobility Equity

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October 13, 2020 Transportation Mobility equity is an important consideration for many cities, as new modes of transportation like ride-share and micro-mobility vehicles profligate. These new services have the potential to disrupt entrenched inequities —...

#ThisWeekInData August 23, 2019

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August 23, 2019 Civic Data ED SCOOP: NEVADA’S NEW DATA TOOL SHOWS HOW SAFE STUDENTS FEEL AT SCHOOL Nevada released an online tool in early August comprised of years of data on students’ perceptions of their schools for districts and officials to look...

Mind the Data Gap

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November 14, 2016 Transportation Managing London’s transport infrastructure is no easy task, but a successful city requires well-run transportation. Each day, residents take 24 million journeys on underground trains and six million commuters ride one of 8...

How San José Launched its Autonomous Vehicle Vision

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February 21, 2018 Mobility 50 cities around the world are already testing autonomous vehicles (AVs) and several others are starting to plan for the influence autonomous vehicles will have on jobs, transportation, and more. Yet, according to the National...

#ThisWeekInData January 19, 2024

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January 19, 2024 Civic Data NextCity: America’s Biggest Universal Basic Mobility Experiment Is Taking Place in L.A. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation and LA Metro are providing 1,000 South Los Angeles residents with a "mobility wallet"...

How Affordable is Opportunity?

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Researchers at Brandeis University attempted to visualize the cost of housing and transportation at the neighborhood level to see where housing and transportations costs were outweighed by the opportunities available to children. Opportunity was measured...

Maximizing Highway Infrastructure's Potential with GIS

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October 4, 2021 Infrastructure Andrew Heath, state traffic engineer for the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), opens our conversation with an intriguing mix of futurism and pragmatism. His view of the power of GIS to transform his department’s...

How GIS Is Powering LA Metro’s Vision 2028

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Government innovation typically focuses on agencies and how better internal processes can reshape their missions. These supply-side innovations concentrate on legacy structures and administrative requirements. This approach tends to produce services that...

Open Mobility as a Service

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October 27, 2021 Mobility This episode a conversation between Professor Steve Goldsmith and transit expert Andrew Salzberg. Previously the director of transportation policy at Uber and a fellow at Graduate School of Design at Harvard Kennedy School...

Streamlining the London Tube with Data

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April 11, 2013 Transportation Ask transit commuters where the greatest challenges exist in their daily commute, and they will be able to tell you without hesitation which stations and transit lines slow down their daily travel. But short of canvassing...